Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa

Empires, Merchants and the Atlantic System, 1580-1674
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20151-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: The Atlantic World

More than fifty years have passed since Charles Boxer wrote his major works on the Dutch-Portuguese rivalries in the Atlantic and attributed the successful takeover of North-eastern Brazil, Angola, São Tomé and the Gold Coast forts by the WIC to the superior naval power of the Dutch.This book reexamines the systems of settlement and trade of these States and their subjects in Western Africa and the Atlantic, offering a fresh insight on discussions about the success and failure of Dutch and Portuguese States, Companies and Merchants in the seventeenth-century-Atlantic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ribeiro Da Silva, Filipa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Diagrams, Graphs, Maps, and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Glossary

Introduction
1. Institutions
2. Labour Migration and colonial societies
3. Intra- and inter-continental trade in, to and via Western Africa
4. Private investment, agency and networks
5. Source Material
6. Structure

Part I: Building Atlantic empires: The Dutch and the Portuguese models of settlement in Western Africa

1. Building institutions
1. Administrative institutions
2. Military institutions
3. Judicial institutions
4. Commercial and fiscal institutions

2. Sending people: Labour migration and forced labour
1. European migrants
1.1. Free migrants
1.2. Forced migrants
2.Forced African migrants: Enslaved and manumitted Africans
3. Locally recruited personnel
3.1. Free Africans
3.2. Mixed descent workers and European settlers
4. European labour markets and Western Africa
5. Policies of settlement and Western Africa

3. Three: Shaping colonial societies
1. Europeans
2. Africans
2.1. Enslaved and manumitted Africans
2.2. Free Africans
3. Mixed descent population
4. Impact of social organization in the building of the Atlantic empires

Part II: Western Africa in the Dutch and the Portuguese Atlantic economies

4. Sailing in African Waters: Coastal areas and hinterland
1. Routes
2. Coastal trade, inter-racial relationships and settlement
3. Trading practices
4. Western African supply markets
5. Western African consumption markets

5. Struggling for the Atlantic: The inter-continental trade
1. Routes
2. Shipping
3. Supply markets
4. Products and enslaved Africans
4.1. Gold
4.2. Enslaved Africans
5. Consumption markets
6. Integration of the markets

6. Doing business with Western Africa: Private investors, agency and commercial networks
1. European entrepreneurs
2. European businessmen
3. Agents
4. Trans-imperial networks
5. Cross-cultural interactions

Conclusion: New insights on Dutch-Portuguese rivalries in the Atlantic

Bibliography
1. Primary sources
2. Published sources
3. Secondary literature
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Ph.D. (2009) in History, Leiden University, is Post-doctoral fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. She has published on Iberian and Dutch Colonial History in several collections and journals.